Noted Marathi actor Nilu Phule passed away at a hospital of Pune on Sunday night following a cancer.
He was 77 years old. Phule wais survived by his wife and a daughter.
Phule’s role as a corrupt politician in Jabbar Patel’s Marathi film “Saamna” and a similar negative role in Mahesh Bhatt’s Hindi film “Saransh”, are memorable [...]

Marathi poet, writer, lyricist and music director Shantaram Nandgaonkar passed away on Saturday morning in Mumbai after a long illness. He was 75 years old. Mr. Nandgaonkar was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and related ailments for the past three years.
He had been in the Bombay Hospital for the past six months where he died this [...]

A portion of a three-storey building collapsed around midnight today, killing one and injuring three
others. The building is located in Khau Galli, Zaveri Bazar, south Mumbai. Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai had declared the building dangerous to live in, and had evacuated it. All the residents had shifted out two days ago.
Ramsingh Varma, 35 years [...]

Heavy monsoon disrupts life of Mumbai, all you see is flooded streets with pedestrians walking through knee-deep water facing lots of difficulty in commuting. Many commuters were stranded on the flooded streets as their vehicles broke down. Traffic Jam is also a major problem.
Some educational institutes in the city declared holiday, in afternoon on account [...]

Heavy rains lashed Mumbai and the neighboring Thane district for the second day on Saturday, bringing respite from the sweltering heat and easing concerns of water scarcity. In many parts of the suburbs people welcomed the rains by performing traditional “Aartis” and “Poojas” as the rains played truant over the last few weeks, as they [...]

A senior bureaucrat from Maharashtra cadre, Ms Neela Satyanarayan, who was additional chief secretary (revenue), has been appointed the state election commissioner of Maharashtra.
Ms Satyanarayan, who had held many important positions including that of home secretary will be the first woman in the country to head the state election commission.